Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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